There are events for this one from October 10-24, but the big
ticket items are the authors speaking on the 23rd and 24th. The focus of
the festival this year is World War II. Kirby Larsen, a Newberry Honor
author, will be the the speaker on the 23rd. One
of her books is Dash, which looks at a Japanese-American girl's
experience with Camp Harmony. "Camp Harmony" was the ironic name used
for the Puyallup fairgrounds when the US used the space for mass
Japanese-American imprisonment during World War II.
The speaker on the 24th is Anthony Doerr, who won the 2015 Pulitzer
Prize for his book All the Light We Cannot See. It's a book about
a blind French girl and a young German boy who have different but
parallel struggles that ultimately intersect in World
War II. It's a great book, and it's really pretty special that Puyallup
was able to bring this author to town. There's a small fee for some of
the events in the festival, but the authors are probably worth it. http://www.puyallupfestivalofbooks.com/